John Gruber on the recent wireless hack

John Gruber's latest Daring Fireball column deals with the story, as it
exists so far, of the wireless security vulnerability announced at the
recent Black Hat conference.

<http://daringfireball.net/2006/08/curious_case>

In his conclusion, Gruber speculates that the oddities of the
announcement and demo had their origins in a mistaken assumption that a
security flaw in FreeBSD extended to Apple's Mac OS X driver. In the
absence of more information, this seems the most likely explanation,
especially considering Maynor's reported statement three weeks ago that
some demos "weren't panning out".

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:19:06 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (Neill
Massello) wrote in <1hkhoaj.15brhultvui5N%(E-Mail Removed) >:

>John Gruber's latest Daring Fireball column deals with the story, as it
>exists so far, of the wireless security vulnerability announced at the
>recent Black Hat conference.
>
><http://daringfireball.net/2006/08/curious_case>
>
>In his conclusion, Gruber speculates that the oddities of the
>announcement and demo had their origins in a mistaken assumption that a
>security flaw in FreeBSD extended to Apple's Mac OS X driver. In the
>absence of more information, this seems the most likely explanation,
>especially considering Maynor's reported statement three weeks ago that
>some demos "weren't panning out".

Again:

<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/the_macbook_wireless_exploit_i.html>
(or <http://tinyurl.com/s9hfu>)

The Black Hat Wireless Exploit Interview, Verbatim
-Brian Krebs on Computer Security

I've been asked this many times, so let me make this crystal clear: I
had the opportunity to see a live version of the demo Maynor gave to
a public audience the next day. In the video shown at Black Hat, he
plugged a third-party USB wireless card into the Macbook -- but
IN THE DEMO MAYNOR SHOWED ME PERSONALLY, HE EXPLOITED THE MACBOOK
WITHOUT ANY THIRD-PARTY WIRELESS CARD PLUGGED IN.

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